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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.

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  • "A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century."@en
  • "A young girl in a shabby neighborhood lived with dreams in an innocent time before the war."@en
  • "The coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn."@en
  • "This is the profoundly moving story of a young girl coming of age at the turn of the century. Francie Nolan lives with her family in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919, where, as an imaginative, alert, and resourceful child, she grows up under the burden of suffering that is the lot of a great city's poor."
  • "The story of a young girl who grows up in a shabby neighborhood in 1912 Brooklyn."@en
  • "The story of a young girl who grows up in a shabby neighborhood in 1912 Brooklyn."
  • "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school. This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld. The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. It had pointed leaves which grew along green switches which radiated from the bough and made a tree which looked like a lot of opened green umbrellas. Some people called it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts"
  • "The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century."@en
  • "The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century."
  • "The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg at the turn of the 20th century."
  • "Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century."@en
  • ""A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900's, A tree grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the WIlliamsburg section of Brooklyn."@en
  • "This is the coming of age story of Francie, a girl growing up in the slums of turn-of-the-century Brooklyn."
  • "The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter, Francie, and their son, Neely, knew more than their fair share of the privations and sufferings that are the lot of a great city's poor."@en
  • "The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. It is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg."@en
  • "Named one of the books of the century by the New York Public Library, this is the profoundly moving classic about a young girl coming of age at the turn of the century. Born in 1901 in the slums of Brooklyn, Francie Nolan has grown up under the burden of suffering that is the lot of the great city's poor. Romantic like her father, an Irish singing waiter, yet pragmatic like her mother, a housecleaner and fierce survivor, Francie uses her imagination and tenacity to thrive in the world in spite of these harsh conditions."@en
  • "Francis Nolan is an often naive Italian girl who grows up in a fun-loving and strong-scented environment where Johnny liked the bottle a little too much and Aunt Sissy had a habit of marrying many times without the formality of divorce."@en
  • "The story of a young girl growing up in the slums of Brooklyn during the early years of the 20th century."@en
  • "A young girl in a shabby neighborhood lives with dreams in an innocent time before the war."@en
  • "Francie Nolan and her brother, Neeley, knew more than their share of privations while growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century."@en

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